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Redesigned restaurant takes on a more relaxed and American menu

Sara Benner September 21, 2011

[Updated at 10:56 a.m., corrected attribution] “Well, we’ve decided to close the Good Knight ... We’ll see you around,” tweeted popular restaurant The Good Knight on its three-year...

Students use social media for personal branding

Jessica Lee September 21, 2011

When Anjli Mehta began sorting through dozens of unanswered emails, she thought the message from USA Today was junk mail. She took a quick glance at the contents of the email only to find that it was a...

Hanson to play by audience requests

Aaron West September 20, 2011

The former heartthrob brothers of Hanson have matured and endured through the past 15 years, having released eight full-length albums and maintained a steady, fiercely loyal fanbase. The Daily Texan spoke...

Wheelchair rugby combines hockey, basketball, bruised hands

Aaron West September 20, 2011

“About every tournament I’ll rip the knuckles on the back of my hand open from pushing and stuff,” said Jeff Butler, a junior in the McCombs School of Business who plays wheelchair rugby...

iPhone keyboard case bulky, not practical

Gary Hsu September 20, 2011

When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the biggest feature it lacked was a physical keyboard. While a virtual keyboard has become the default input method for today’s smartphones, there are...

Bacon restaurant offers traditional meals with a twist

Sarah-Grace Sweeney September 20, 2011

There is a little yellow house on 10th Street, right off Lamar Boulevard. It looks like the kind of place where someone’s grandmother might be cooking biscuits and gravy with a hearty side of bacon,...

ACL 2011 Recap

Ali Breland, Aaron West, and Julie Rene Tran September 19, 2011

This weekend was the 10th annual Austin City Limits Musical Festival in Zilker Park. Thousands of music fans from across the country and around the world descended on the park for three days of grand performances....

Zen Buddhism Center offers study and meditation

Audrey White September 19, 2011

Editor’s note: This column is the first in a weekly series exploring different religions and spirituality in Austin. The head teacher at the Austin Zen Center referenced Kurt Vonnegut and the Christian...

‘Straw Dogs’ remake not original enough

Robert Starr September 16, 2011

Rod Lurie’s remake of “Straw Dogs” makes many changes to Sam Peckinpah’s original, some of which improve the story and some that don’t make much of a difference. The biggest...

‘Drive’ combines all-star cast, style to keep audience on toes

Alex Williams September 16, 2011

Director Nicolas Winding Refn has spent most of his career crafting delicately paced studies of masculinity that are light on story and heavy on bloody action. His “Bronson” was something of...

‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ explores life’s delicate balances

Aleksander Chan September 16, 2011

There is something inherently disingenuous about Douglas McGrath’s “I Don’t Know How She Does It.” This is not, as much as the marketing for the film would have it, a spiritual...

Working woman’s story gets told in stage collaboration

Elizabeth Hinojos September 16, 2011

The working woman is as thriving as ever, and there is no forgetting the iconic figure who symbolizes the upheaval of the male-dominated workforce. Famous poster child Rosie the Riveter is the protagonist...

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